Re: particle simulation and video cards

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

One bugger I ran into some time ago, a fluffy ball of dust
had brought the fan of my graphicscard to a halt, which
resulted in the card speedstepping the GPU and therefore
delivering a pretty disapointing performance.

A saber brush (size 5...)  solved this problem.

Now I do give my machines a regular brush every few months.

Cheers

tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Pickard" <mail(at)simonpickard.co.uk>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: particle simulation and video cards


> This is really weird..
>
> A few things I can think of..
>
> 1. In display settings what's the driver listed as on the Boxx? Almost
> sounds like it's using the default VGA driver for some reason.
>
> 2. Playback can sometimes be more to do with the cpu than the gfx
> card. On the Boxx could you try running xsi in a single thread just to
> see if that gives you anything different (Goto the xsi process in task
> man, right click and set affinity to use just 1 cpu).
>
> 3. Are you running multi monitors on the Boxx. If so try just using a
> single display.
>
> 4. If you say "Hello HAL" to your laptop does it reply with "Hello Dave"? 
> ;)
>
> Regards,
> Simon.
>
>
>
>
> On 30/04/07, Todd Alan Peleg <todd(at)theholdingcell.com> wrote:
> >  i think i said before.. just about 3 times faster on my laptop..
> >
> >  so.. say the 100 frame sequence playing all frames takes 6 seconds to
> > playback on the BOXX (not exaggerating).. it takes a bit over 2 to play 
> > back
> > on my laptop..
> >
> >  but.. i recently tried an install of the NVIDIA drivers.. by removing 
> > the
> > old one first .. then installing the new one...
> >
> >  i did it 3 times.. the oldest driver for the card.. the newest... and 
> > the
> > SOFTIMAGE recommended one..
> >
> >  none of them made one bit of difference (yes.. i also changed the driver 
> > to
> > the softimage XSI setting in the properties)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well it's very typical to loose proper hardware acceleration after
> > re-installing Windows and not installing the vendor's driver on top.
> >
> > also what kind of frame per second are you talking about when you say 
> > it's
> > much faster?
> >
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >  From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> > Of
> > Todd Alan Peleg
> >  Posted At: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:04 PM
> >  Posted To: xsi
> >  Conversation: particle simulation and video cards
> >  Subject: Re: particle simulation and video cards
> >
> >  this one was checked and didn't help.. except making my laptop slower..
> > made no change on the BOXX
> >
> >  i was gonna ask the systems guy about Kris' option.. that sounds
> > interesting.. any other ideas .. please.. keep sending them
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